August 9, 2012
Plenary 1
Breakout Sessions 1 | 2 | 3

August 10, 2012
Breakout Sessions 4 | 5 | 6
Plenary 2

Room 95

IP and Ethical, Cultural Implications

Room 180

Copyright, Authorship and Attribution

Room 190

IP and Protectionism

Room 280B

IP at the Intersection of Creative and Useful

Room 290

Patent Doctrines

Traditional Knowledge Rights and Wrongs

Sean Pager

Creation Norms and Authorship: The Porgy and Bess Controversy

Olufunmilayo Arewa

How Law Made Silicon Valley

Anupam Chander

Bleistein; or, Intellectual Property Law and the
Problem of Aesthetic Progress

Barton Beebe

Better Patenting

Bernard Chao

Achieving Content Accessibility in Communications and Copyright Law

Blake Ellis Reid

Valuing Attribution and Publication in Intellectual Property: An Experiment

Christopher Buccafusco

The Competitive Advantage of Weak Patents

William Hubbard

Conceptual Separability and the Copyright/Patent Boundary

Viva R. Moffat

Explaining Exhaustion: Commercial Law’s Constraints on Contract

John Duffy & Richard Hynes

Reconceptualizing the Idea of Responsibility in Copyright Law

Haochen Sun

Dialogues of Authenticity

Laura Heymann

Copyright’s Mercantilist Turn

Glynn Lunney

Reverse-Engineering Textual Meaning

Zahr K. Said

The (Relatively) Easy Case for Patents on Inventions

Oskar Liivak

Learning By Doing

Madhavi Sunder

The Public Psychology of Intellectual Property Rights

Gregory Mandel

Outsourcing Trade Secret Misappropriation

Elizabeth Rowe

In Defense of Design Patents

Sarah Burstein

Clarifying the Analogous Arts Test

Brenda Simon

Room 95

Trademarks & Branding

Room 180

Copyright and the First Amendment

Room 190

Patent Reform and Trade Secrets

Room 280B

Patent Damages and Valuation

Room 290

IP, Infringement Litigation and Efficiency

Debunking the “Duty to Police” in Trademark Law
 
Deborah Gerhardt, Eric Goldman, & Leah Chan Grinvald

Catch 22 in the Rye:
Copyright Essentialism and the Performativity of Remedies

Andrew Gilden

Protecting America’s True Innovators
W. Keith Robinson

Fixing FRAND: Rationalizing “Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” Licensing of Standards-Essential Patents

Jorge Contreras

Law and Economics of Litigation: New Insights from Patents

Axel Haus &
Steffen Juranek

Trademark Law, Branding and the Oppressive Leveraging of the Female Gender

Ann Bartow

Are Search Results Speech?

James Grimmelmann

Be Careful What You Wish For: Trade Secrets and the America Invents Act

Sharon Sandeen

Creating a National Database for Patent Valuation

Matthew Dowd
& Brian Love

Patent Litigation in the UK: An Overview

Christian Helmers

Sex Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property

Jennifer Rothman

Cracks in the Edifice: a Copyright Critique
of the Institutional First Amendment
Jake Linford

UTSA Preemption and the Public Domain: How and Why Courts Have Overlooked Patent Preemption of State Law Claims Alleging Employee Wrongdoing

Charles Tait Graves
& Elizabeth Tippett

Collective Patent Pricing

Michael Mattioli

Patent Litigation Dynamics: Key Value Drivers And Efficiency Implications

Michael Mazzeo,
Jonathan Hillel,
& Samantha Zyontz

Trademark Apologetic Justice: China’s Three Laws on Trademark Reputation

Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Copyright, First Amendment, and the Ontology of Speech

Felix Wu

APA, AIA, and the PTO:  The Changing Guard of Patent Law
Melissa Wasserman

Basing Patent Remedies on Harm to the World Rather Than on Harm to the Patentee
Samson Vermont

Raising the Stakes in Patent Cases

Anup Malani
& Jonathan Masur

Intent, Confusion, and Trademark Infringement

Alfred Yen

Copyright as an Engine of Censorship
Peter Yu

Patent Reforms at Both Sides of the Atlantic: A Critical Analysis from a “Good Governance” Perspective

Esther van Zimmeren

Killing Two Birds with One Party: Using Neutral Third Parties
to Represent the Public Interest and to Dampen Overzealous
Advocacy in District Court Patent Litigation

Jeremy Bock

Using Fee Shifting to Promote Fair Use and Fair Licensing

Peter Menell &
Ben Depoorter

Room 95

Trademark Theory

Room 180

Toward a Worldwide IP System

Room 190

Copyright and Music

Room 280B

Patentable Subject Matter

Room 290

IP History

Speech, Citizenry, and the Market: A Corporate Public Figure Doctrine

Deven Desai

Measuring and Modeling Trans-Border Patent Rewards

Richard Gruner

Copyright and the Dilemma of
Defining Musical Works in the Era of Fixed Sound

Robert Brauneis

This Is Not a Law of Nature: Prometheus Laboratories and the Patentability of Representation
Kevin Emerson Collins

Patent Examination in the Venetian Republic (1414-1788)

Ted Sichelman
& Sean O’Connor

Hedonic Trademarks

Irina Manta

The Impact of Joining the Regional European Patent Convention System

Bronwyn Hall
& Christian Helmers

Copyright Complements

Jerry Liu

How Abortion Politics and Technophobia Created the Distinction Between Patently Human and Patentably Non-Human

Yaniv Heled

America’s First Patents
Michael Risch

An Impersonation Theory of Trademark Law

Lisa Ramsey

Deviant Globalization:  The Next Step in the Multilateral Protection of Intellectual Property

Doris Estelle Long

Getting it Wrong: Juror Assessments of Similarity in a Music Copyright Experiment

Jamie Lund

Patentable Subject Matter and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Eileen Herlihy

Time for a Truce: Lessons from the Lightbulb Litigation
for the Smartphone Patent War

Lea Shaver

How to Do Things with Word Marks: A Speech-Act Theory of Distinctiveness

Alexandra Roberts

Evaluating Flexibility in International Patent Law

Sarah Wasserman Rajec

Substantial Similarity and Psychological Similarity: Perfect Strangers

David Morrison

Exclusivity Without Patents: The New Frontier of FDA Regulation for Genetic Materials

Gregory Dolin

The Missing Context of the IP Clause: Madison, Jefferson, and the Influence of the French Philosophes Encyclopédie Project

Sean O’Connor

Room 95

Alternatives to IP

Room 180

IP and Cross-Border Infringement

Room 190

Copyright Doctrine

Room 280B

IP’s Impact on Firms, Universities

Room 290

Patent Claim Construction

Commercializing Public Sector Information

Miriam Bitton

Building the Global Green Patent Highway: A Proposal for International Harmonization of Green Technology Fast Track Programs

Eric Lane

Eldred, Golan and the Soul of Copyright

Howard Abrams

Teams, Creativity, and the Firm

Anthony Casey
& Andres Sawicki

Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming

Mark Lemley

Governing Innovation Prizes

Michael Burstein
& Fiona Murray

Intellectual Property Without Borders

Cynthia Ho

Imagining the Contours of Copyright Protection for Synthetic Biology

Christopher Holman

Community based IP

Mary-Anne Williams

Cardozo on Patent Claim Construction and Interpretation

David Levine

The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network as a Nested Cultural Commons

Brett Frischmann & Katherine Strandburg

Trade’s Horizon and the Evolution of
“Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights”

Patricia Judd

Divisibility, Ownership, and the Exclusive CopyrightLicense

Christopher Newman

Sources of University Research Funding and Their Impact On Commercialization Outcomes

Jay Kesan & Hsiao-shan Yang

Patent Claim Construction in the United States
as a Form of Legal Interpretation

Christian Mammen

Governmental Innovation Mechanism Choices (with reference to Climate Change)

Joshua Sarnoff

Imperatives of Private Arbitration in International Intellectual Property Disputes

Mary Wong & Jacqueline Lipton

Acupressure: The Role of Market Forces in China's Emerging Copyright Enforcement Environment

Eric Priest

Patents and the University

Peter Lee

Rhetorical Devices in Claim Construction

Kristen Osenga

Room 95

Industries Without IP

Room 180

Copyright Theory

Room 190

Real Property and Intellectual Property

Room 280B

Patents, the Federal Circuit and SCOTUS

Room 290

Patents, Disclosure and Notice

Copying Norms in the Tattoo Industry

Aaron Perzanowski

The Uneasy Case Against Copyright Trolls

Shyamkrishna Balganesh

Play First versus Pay First: Exploring Cumulative Innovation in Patent & Copyright Law

Stefan Bechtold,
Christopher Buccafusco,
& Christopher Sprigman

The Federal Circuit as a Federal Court

Paul R. Gugliuzza

The Information Value of Patent Claims

Tun-Jen Chiang

What Drives IP without IP? A Study of the Online Adult Entertainment Industry

Kate Darling

Creativity Constrained: Comics and the Law

Marc Greenberg

A Taxonomy of "Improvement Doctrines" in Property and IP

Deepa Varadarajan

The Federal Circuit: Standing in the Breach

David O. Taylor

The Patent Applicant’s Duty of Disclosure: A Comparative Analysis

Lisa Dolak

The Space Between:  An Openwork Approach to IP Protection

Amy Landers

Copyright, Neuroscience, and Creativity

Erez Reuveni

Virtual Property and Copyright: Taking the First Sale Doctrine into the Virtual Realm

Scott Boone

From Federal Common Law to Textualism: The Evolving Interpretation of Patent Cases in the Supreme Court

David S. Olson

“Overbreadth” As Oversimplification

Emily Michiko Morris

Fear and Loathing and Intellectual Property

Betsy Rosenblatt

Individuality or Multiplicity of “the Work”: Tracing an Evolving (and Perennial) Concern of Copyright Law and Policy
Eva Subotnik

Property’s Intellect

Molly Van Houweling

The Supreme Court’s Intellectual Property Caseload: A Historical Study

Ryan Vacca

Scaling the Patent System

Christina Mulligan
& Timothy Lee

Room 95

Cyberlaw and IP

Room 180

Trademark, Intersection with Copyright, Social Media

Room 190

Copyright, Orphan Works and Fair Use

Room 280B

Patents, Empirical Studies

Room 290

Patents and NPEs

Graduated Response American Style:
‘Six Strikes’ Measured Against Five Norms

Annemarie Bridy

Dastar’s Next Stand

Mark McKenna

The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma

Ariel Katz

Patent Prosecutors, Innovation, and Ethics
in Everyday Legal Practice

William Gallagher

The Past, Present, and Future of the Software Patent Problem

Colleen Chien

Internet Curation in Copyright’s Shadow:
Pinterest, Storify, and a Proposal for “Copyright Exempt” 501(c)(3) Entities

Edward Lee

Selling Information

Jeremy N. Sheff

Orphan Works as Grist for the Data Mill

Matthew Sag

Reconceiving the Patent Rocket Docket:
An Empirical Study of Infringement Litigation 1985–2010

Saurabh Vishnubhakat

The Giants Among Us

Tom Ewing
& Robin Feldman

Generation C:  Childhood, Code and Creativity

Andrea Matwyshyn

Sanctioning Intellectual Property Bullies?

Leah Chan Grinvald

How Fair Use Can Help Solve the Orphan Works Problem

Jennifer Urban

The Presumption of Validity in Patent Litigation:
An Experimental Study

David Schwartz & Christopher Seaman

Markets and Patent Enforcement: A Comparative Investigation of
Non-Practicing Entities in the US and EU

Stefania Fusco

The Right to Data Portability: Is This New Privacy Right Contrary to Antitrust Law?

Peter Swire

Who Owns the Social Media Account?

Zoe Argento

Nominative Fair Use Still Doesn't Make Sense

Greg Lastowka

An Empirical Study of Patent Prosecution Success
after the Filing of a Notice of Appeal

Andrew Torrance

From PI to IP: Yet Another Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform
Ronen Avraham
& John Golden

Intellectual Property Infringement by Artificial Intelligence Applications

Eran Kahana

Online Beauty & Online Licenses

Tal Niv

Fair Use, Transaction Costs, and Computable Contracts

Harry Surden

Patent Examination and Litigation Outcomes

Sean Tu

Expanding the Customer Suit Exception in Patent Law

James Yoon